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TIL In Russia a young cannibal killed and ate 11 people to impress his girlfriend

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Z85xo TIL a communist Prussian army officer, August Willich, challenged Karl Marx to a duel because he thought Marx was too conservative. Marx declined, but representatives of both men later dueled, and Marx's second was shot in the head. Willich later became a Union army major in the US Civil War
woXd7 TIL that Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS Church, aka Mormon Church, was assassinated in 1844 in Illinois by a mob. He was running for president at the time and is the first presidential candidate in US History to be assassinated
8br8 TIL in 2002, Sega’s president gifted all $695 million of his own company stock to save Sega from going bankrupt due to the Dreamcast; he died shortly afterwards following an arduous battle with cancer.
J170B TIL the Domesday Book, the oldest public legal record in England, from a survey in 1086. Shires were visited by royal officers, who held a public inquiry in the shire court. The unit of inquiry was the Hundred (a Hundred was comprised of ten Tithes of ten households). (Wapentakes in east England).
JKw4 TIL dogs have a bacteria on their paws that make them smell like corn chips, which is commonly referred to as “Frito Feet.”